Real estate comeback: Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty, a brokerage based in Point Loma, has officially teamed up with two familiar names in the San Diego real estate market. Steve Games and Nyda Jones-Church, the original co-founders of Prudential California Realty, are now in a 50-50 partnership with the real estate company. Games and Jones-Church are best known as the partners who sold Prudential 2002 to a division of Berkshire Hathaway, owned by Warren Buffett. See, Leading real estate firm gains veteran duo

Distress is down: Mortgage defaults, the first sign of a foreclosure, have fallen to their lowest level for an April in six years, based on the latest DataQuick numbers for San Diego County. Meanwhile, the number of completed foreclosures in the county has dropped to a five-year low for a given April. What's possibly pushing down local distress? See, Mortgage defaults at 6-year low